Strategies to Excel as Academicians
Wing Commander
Prof Dr A Kamalakar, PhD, PMP
22 Jun 2015
1401h
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A Teacher
1.Facilitates learning
2.Motivates to acquire knowledge
3.Creates learning atmosphere through personal conduct and standards
4.Triggers thinking
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Checklist for Effective Communication in the
Classroom
1. Get attention before you start
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2. Introduce
a) Yourself
b) Subject
c) Syllabus
d) Books
e) Topic
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3.Teaching scheme
4.Teaching schedule
5.Examination scheme
6.Assessment profile
7.Define your style and
expectations
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Myths about Lecture
1. Covering information = Teaching
2. Speech making = Instruction
3. No questions = Understanding
4. Pleased group reaction = Learning
5. Academic success = Teaching skill
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Assumptions
1. If you know it, you can teach it
2. Good teachers are born, not made
3. Silence in the classroom indicates
learning
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Assume
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Lively
Educative
Creative
Thought – provoking
Understandable
Relevant
Enjoyable
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Your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach students while you teach through effective expression.
-- Ark l’ Shapiro
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Strategies to Excel
1.Prepare thoroughly
2.Teaching is learning twice
3.Aim is not teaching per se but learning must take place among students
4.Keep every lecture interesting content – wise, delivery – wise and value - addition – wise
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5. Be enthusiastic
6. Be accessible
7. Correct journals, assignments and answer books with dedication. Learning takes place in small steps.
8. Implementing small corrections over a period of time leads to excellence
9. Aim for one paper per project guided
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10. Concentrate on basics
Basics Applications, Standards, Implications, Commonality
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11.Counsel and coach
12. Appearance --- elegant and exemplary, not distracting
13. Personalised instruction
14. Humane approach
15. Provide what you got or wished you got while you were a student.
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A teacher need not know all the
answers.
But must know where to search for
them !
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I can not teach anybody anything;
I can only make them think !
… Socrates
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ABC … OF TEACHING
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You can not sell them,
if you can not tell them.
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People Remember 1. 10 % of what they read
2. 20 % of what they hear
3. 30 % of what they see
4. 50 % of what they see and hear
5. 80 % of what they say
6. 90 % of what they say and do
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If you tell something without repetition
After
1. 24 h, 25% have forgotten it
2. 48 h, 50%
3. 72 h, 75%
4. One week, 96% have forgotten it !
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Teaching Leadership
Influencing your colleagues in teaching and learning process in your discipline.
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Teaching Leadership
1. Leadership of teaching teams. Leading by example.
2. Induction of new faculty
3. Leadership of regular faculty
4. Conduct of seminars for colleagues
5. Involvement in seminars
6. Development of policies and procedures
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16. Learning environment a) Hardware. Infrastructure
b) Software. Quality of teaching
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17. Adopt result-producing practices and reject the worst practices.
18. Inculcate Entrepreneurship (doing everything on your own)
19. Ownership (Do everything as if you are the owner) concept.
20. Follow strict personal discipline and stick to values.
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If students have not understood your lecture, either you didn’t 1. Know the subject 2. Explain properly 3. Express properly 4. Prepare well 5. Create a conducive learning environment 6. Have control over the class
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It is not what you tell them that is important. It is what they hear.
... Red Anerbach,
Boston Celtics Coach
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Summary Excellent Teachers….
1. Know what they want to teach
2. Know how to reach
3. Establish and maintain healthy
relationships with students
4. Understand students’ perspectives
5. Listen actively
6. Understand and clarify subject
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